What on earth do you say? "Royal, you did well lad, stand down" Its meaningless, back in the day company lines used to stretch down the road, Alpha, then Bravo and finally Charlie.

I very rarely comment on RIP threads but everytime I hear of another young thruster cut down in his prime I'm back on that road in Norton Manor camp, it's a monday morning, all the lads have just piled out off the grots and are forming up in sections/Troops/companys. I'm casting a glance left and right watching everyone form up I then imagine it's another one of those lads, the image in my mind is blurred enough not to attach a name to the victim but the hurt is there.